If your (server-class) machine has a networked IPMI BMC then you can do remote reset with it just as well if the machine runs LinuxBIOS as it would with the vendor BIOS. Well it *should* work, who knows :-)
Yeah, quite. While I *have* got one IPMI card working with LinuxBIOS, in my experience most IPMI implementations are prime examples of why proprietary software is bad.
Yeah, don't construe my comments as a recommendation to use IPMI. I was just pointing how remote reset typically works with current machines.
I have yet to encounter an IPMI card that is stable and adheres to the spec. The situation is improving somewhat with IPMI 2.0, but vendors are still pushing out extremely buggy products, with even buggier proprietary IPMI client software.
And there's no indication this situation will improve any time soon.
And the console redirection they provide is most often a graphical console, which makes things slow. Also, console redirection requires help of browser applets that are often unreliable. I have used them successfully though to power-toggle machines - that part seems more or less reliable.
(Graphical) console redirection isn't a good solution for non-mswindows machines, it's way too fragile. For anything sane good solutions exist already (serial lines, telnet, that kind of thing). Not much consumer-class stuff has support for these things built in though.
Segher